anise [spacecoast]

[verminous]

anise can do anything she wants forever

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[verminous]

[pretty bad!

he's not facing the barrier, right now, sitting turned away from it; the bug arm appears to be in better shape, now, but it is restrained behind his back.]

[sexyasmieu]

[ well, she'll just walk up to the barrier anyway. ]

... You never liked talking about that arm, huh...

[verminous]

No. It's not much worth talking about.

[sexyasmieu]

I'm not so sure about that... especially after what just happened.

[verminous]

You're not gonna want to know, Anise.

[sexyasmieu]

I know it's not going to be anything nice, but...

I'd rather know, than not.

[verminous]

...it's an augment I got against my will. About your age when they did the procedure, actually. Used to be that it would--

It acted against my will, too. It hasn't been like this in...

[sexyasmieu]

"They"...? But... why would they do that?

[verminous]

They were giving the procedure to all of their employees. Everyone in the corporation. I was just... the lucky test subject who only ended up with an arm, instead of worse mutations.

[sexyasmieu]

Experimenting on kids...? That's pretty low.

... Is that the company you still work for?

[verminous]

No. G Corp folded, after the war. Left all its remnants cast aside.

[sexyasmieu]

Did you end up going to war, too...?

[verminous]

Yeah. Used to be a soldier of theirs. War only ended about... ten years ago.

[sexyasmieu]

That sucks... I mean, they did all that to you, and you had to fight their battles for them?

[verminous]

Didn't have any other choice. And then when they were done with us... that was it.

[sexyasmieu]

So they just... what, abandoned you? And the others?

[verminous]

Exactly that, yeah.

Once you've worked for a fallen Corp, nobody takes you in after that.

[sexyasmieu]

Seriously? That's brutal...

[verminous]

That's how the City is. Always has been.

[sexyasmieu]

But you're with a company now, right? So is that one different?

[verminous]

...well, at the root of it, Limbus Company's probably the same as any other in the City, but. I owe 'em for taking me on.

[sexyasmieu]

So it's not exactly a happy ending, but it's not the worst way things could go...

[verminous]

-yeah. Yeah, it's something like that. And Dante's been better to work with, anyway.

[sexyasmieu]

[ nods... ]

Um, Gregor...

I brought something I wanted to give you... You don't mind, right?

[verminous]

You-- did?

[he blinks, obviously surprised, but.]

...I'd never mind you, Anise.